Originating as simple one- or two-room storefront operations, Cleveland\'s Department Stores grew as population and industry in the region boomed throughout the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th.
Stores such as Halle\'s, Higbee\'s, May Company, Bailey Company, Sterling-Lindner-Davis, and others both competed with and complemented one another.
They moved into ever larger and elaborate structures in an attempt to woo the shopping dollars of blue-collar and genteel Clevelanders alike.
Originating as simple one- or two-room storefront operations, Cleveland\'s Department Stores grew as population and industry in the region boomed throughout the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th